James Michener was someone who found what he was made to do and did it. For him, work was not toiling but completing himself in many ways. He was in what Max Lucado calls ‘his sweet spot,’ where he was in his natural flow, and things came naturally.
This state does not exclude a lot of hard work and the tediousness of the backstory of our labour but is driven by the sense of being in the purpose that fits each one of us. It is also an ongoing process of revelation as we discern what works for us and what does not.